NEW DELHI: Nasa is spearheading efforts to create a standardized time system for the Moon, following a White House policy directive issued in April. The agency’s Space Communication and Navigation (SCaN) program is leading this initiative to develop Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC), which will be crucial for future lunar exploration and potentially scalable to other […]
TEHRAN: Iran has successfully sent into orbit the domestically-developed Chamran 1 research satellite, registering another impressive stride in the country’s space program. In the early hours of Saturday, the satellite was put into orbit at an altitude of 550 kilometers (341 miles) above the Earth’s surface onboard a homegrown Qaem-100 space launch vehicle (SLV). Qaem-100 […]
Scientists say that while most fires are set by humans, the recent hot and dry conditions being driven by climate change are helping the fires spread more quickly. SAO PAULO: South America is being ravaged by fire from Brazil’s Amazon rainforest through the world’s largest wetlands to dry forests in Bolivia, breaking a previous record […]
WASHINGTON: The third edition of the INDUS-X Summit concluded in the United States, marking a progress in the advancement of a joint defence innovation ecosystem in the two countries. Held on 9-10 September, the summit was a landmark event jointly organised by the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) and Stanford University. During the summit, a […]
WARSAW: A group of Hungarian lawmakers and representatives of NGOs met on Wednesday on a dried-out sandbank of the country’s second river after the Danube to highlight the severe impact of a drought in July and August that damaged key crops. Water levels in the Tisza river dropped sharply after repeated heatwaves which also hit […]
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees says six of its employees are among the at least 18 people killed in a recent Israeli aerial assault on a school in the central Gaza Strip. In a statement released on Thursday, UNRWA said Wednesday’s Israeli airstrikes targeting the UN-run al-Jaouni school […]
KREMLIN: The Kremlin said on Wednesday it did not like the way Vladimir Putin’s name was bandied around in the US presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, and urged the candidates to stop dragging him into their political fight. The Russian President’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, was speaking a week after Putin said in […]
LONDON: While the United States has signaled it will soon lift restrictions on Ukraine’s use of Western-supplied long-range missiles against key military targets inside Russia, the United Kingdom has already removed such restrictions, a report says. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and British Foreign Secretary David Lammy met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in […]
NEW DELHI: India is holding regular talks with the Russian authorities for the discharge of nearly 50 Indian nationals who were tricked into fighting for the Russian Army in the ongoing Ukraine conflict, the Ministry of External Affairs said Thursday. At a media briefing here, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said a total of 45 Indians […]
JERUSALEM: Israeli strikes on Palestinian territories have killed more than two-dozen Palestinians on Wednesday, according to local officials. They say an Israeli airstrike killed five Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, and at least 20 people, including 16 women and children, were killed in the Gaza Strip. Gaza’s Health Ministry says Tuesday’s strike on a […]